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Summary: Who cares about Kait?
Review: The best part about this trilogy is that the chapters are very short and the print is very large. If they were longer I don't think I would have made it through the books. The only reason I read the trilogy was because of the annoyingly predictable cliffhanger in book one and my OCD-ish inability to let a book go unfinished.
The main characters are boring and unlikable, actually Kait grates on my nerves. Some of the minor characters like Ian are more palatable. The plot line is stupid and not captivating at all. Throughout the book it is a drawn out build up where Kait and the other characters worry about how in the world will they ever defeat the evil, then about a paragraph or two of our heroes easily vanquishing the current evil, a page of lull where our heroes have a nagging feeling that something is still wrong (the reader is tipped off by the 200 or so pages still left in the book). Then suddenly a new bad guy appears and the whole thing starts all over again.
I've read and enjoyed countless cheesy sci-fi/fantasy novels but Lisle's Secret Texts trilogy is horribly written with a boring plot line and irritating, poorly developed, vapid characters. I think suffering a skin rash would have been more pleasant and less irritating than struggling through Lisle's "adventures". If I could give negative stars I would have.
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Summary: Average at Best
Review: ...It is difficult to get interested in a story when you don't give a damn what happens to the characters. Additionally the story line seems fragmented and it is difficult to figure out who is talking and why sometimes.Anyway so far this trilogy barely makes a 3 star and while I will probably read VENGEANCE OF DRAGONS it had better improve quickly of that will be the end for me. I give this book a NETURAL RECOMMENDATION.
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Summary: Average at Best
Review: ...It is difficult to get interested in a story when you don't give a damn what happens to the characters. Additionally the story line seems fragmented and it is difficult to figure out who is talking and why sometimes. Anyway so far this trilogy barely makes a 3 star and while I will probably read VENGEANCE OF DRAGONS it had better improve quickly of that will be the end for me. I give this book a NETURAL RECOMMENDATION.
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Summary: Too Much Talking Inside the Head
Review: A good trilogy with very interesting mix of characters. However, characters talk too much to their (other)-selves, and that gets annoying after 500 pages. And, that (thing) happened to reborn is just plain stupid. Oh well... a good read none-the-less if you could withstand some disappointments in the storyline.
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Summary: Don't forget to buy the whole series
Review: A very nice book. Easily read. But before you start reading it make sure you have books 2 and 3 at hand!! I hated it when Book 1 just ended practically in mid-sentence.
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Summary: Good Stuff!
Review: After far too many English classes, I went back and re-read the two books of Lisle's series with a critical eye. The only thing I found that stuck out was her sometimes prolific use of the word "and." The characters are great, the storyline is great, and Lisle echoes reality far too well with her suggesting that there is more than one side, besides that of the protagonists, to be seen.
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Summary: And I thought I didn't care for fantasy...!
Review: Bear with me and let me give my bottom-line advice right now : The trilogy of The Secret Texts is a must read for anybody looking for great adventure, exotic settings and endearing characters. And if, like myself, you're curious about the genre but don't care about elves, goblins and traditional wizards, don't worry: Ms. Lisle's Secret Texts will provide you fantasy, but with an edge. Forget the elves and meet the Scarred; trade bearded wizards for dangerously powerful Dragons and cunning Wolves; and expect no damsel in distress : the heroine, Kait Galweigh, can be a tough - and deadly - cookie. What has impressed me first in these three books is the setting. I finished this serie with the impression that Matrin was real and that, given the chance, I could find my way in it: this is what I call impressive worldbuilding. Matrin also includes very distinct territories inhabited by all kinds of different (you could say esthetically challenged but very functional) people. Those features alone would make it worth the trip, but what makes Matrin all the more interesting is that there is a frightful explanation for these variations. No, you can't blame it on the weather... The characterization of the Falcon's and the Dragon's distinct magics is also admirably rigorous: You can't have nothing if you don't give anything first, and Ms. Lisle has given the Falcons and the Dragons drastically different ways of respecting this principle in the use of their magic. The result is magic you can make sense of; no annoying deus ex machina in Matrin's magical systems, and no offense done to the reader's intelligence. As for the characters, well, I liked Kait and Ry, of course. But Ms. Lisle's Secret Texts are filled with endearing second roles. No, you won't yawn your head off when Kait and Ry aren't in the spotlight. Quite the contrary; every character has a story in store that will grab your interest and your heart. And what I appreciated the most in the Secret Texts was that these characters possess strong and plausible motives, and that these motives bring about numerous moral dilemmas. If you think about petty, conventional and easy choices, well, think again. The characters are caught in juicy, enticing, complicated moral issues, and each decision comes with a price to pay. And in Ms. Lisle's books, when characters suffer, it's always to the reader's benefit...! Finally, all these characters gravitate around a story that contains a whole tank truck of unpredictable twists and turns. But again, I never felt cheated: in Ms. Lisle story as in Matrin's magic, everything makes sense. I have only one complain concerning the trilogy, but you can skip this part, as it does not concern the story in itself. It's a problem of almost every fantasy book on the shelves, namely, these covers where you can see an image of the heroes. First, you're bound to discover inconsistencies between the image and the description done by the author (for example, Kait's hair is supposed to be black, and on the covers of the three books, she's either a red-head or strawberry blonde). But really, the biggest problem with this kind of cover is that you're deprived of your own image of the heroes. And when you really, really like a book, well, that stinks, because you'd so much like to think that the strong and witty heroine looks like, say, yourself...!
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Summary: good book
Review: Diplomacy of Wolves is about a young women named Kait Galweigh who has the Karnee curse which is she can turn into a creature sort of like a wolf. Most of her faimly has been destroyed by the Sabirs and she is now on a mision to find the mirror of souls which she beleives will bring her dead faimly back to life. This book is full of courageous heroism that you wont be able to put down so i definatly recomend it to all fantasy lovers.
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Summary: The best book I've read over the summer of 1999.
Review: Diplomacy of Wolves is an exquisite fantasy epic that I thoroughly enjoyed. Holly Lisle is a top rank author, right up there with Anne McCaffery, J.V.Jones, Terry Brooks, and Robert Jorden. I can't wait for the second book in The Secret Texts series and have already pre-ordered it from Amazon.com. I finished it in less than seven hours and loved it from start to finish. If you like fantasy, then this book is for you.
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Summary: Not worth the time...
Review: Diplomacy of Wolves managed to achieve many of the things I hate about fantasy novels. First, we had brutality masquerading as "reality"...The lurid details were merely disgusting; the author did not match this level of detail when describing scenes of beauty, friendship, or heroism. Secondly, the characters were stereotypical fantasy types: the earnest, beautiful young diplomat, the rogue captain, the bumbling fool who tries to flee the action but ends up in its midst. Thanks, I'll just pop in my Star Wars tape. And finally, we had the story stop right in the middle of the action! The best fantasy writers manage to conclude part of the action, while leaving enough strands of the plot to carry the reader to the next books in the trilogy...
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